MBA assignment

Running head: ROLES OF A MANAGER

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ROLES OF A MANAGER

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Introduction: Manager’s Role Play

As we know, that manager is considered the captain of the ship responsible for performing all his duties to keep his/her team on track to achieve the organization's desired goals and objectives effectively and efficiently. A manager finds himself/herself in various tasks and responsibilities, i.e., resolving a conflict, act as a negotiator on behalf of the organization between two parties regarding making new contracts, department represented at the board of directors meeting, or putting the request regarding approving new operating system before the board meeting at high priority and many others (Saini, 2016). These roles represent that a manager does not choose to let his organization down in multiple business activities. He has been appointed as a manager to perform all his duties effectively and efficiently. Henry Mintzberg recognized these manager's roles and argued that there ten basic roles and behaviours that a manager carries and used to categorize his different functions accordingly. The ten basic roles that a manager carries are as follows: Comment by Ken Li: I can’t see any connection between this paragraph with the reference article

· A Figurehead

· A Leader

· A Liaison

· A Monitor

· A Disseminator

· A Spokesperson

· An Entrepreneur

· Efficient Disturbance Handler

· Productive Resource Allocator

· A Negotiator

Those mentioned above are basic roles that a manager performs; these roles are constantly changing according to the situations. As far as the given scenario is considered, if we add another managerial role, i.e., 'Academic Researcher' in all the above cluster of roles that the managers already perform, what kind of changes will happen? And what types of differences in approach and challenges will be implied due to this addition in all ten basic manager’s role.

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Manager’s Role: Academic Researcher

A manager could be an academic researcher because it has been observed that managers have a habit of reading research-based management books/thesis to understand the different types of issues that may arise in the department or organization. Managers make mistakes to understand the complexity of the issues they face in the organization, and it happens many times while performing their duties. For instance, we take an example of workplace conflict, team members’ issues, and others, resolved by the managers when they read much in research-based management books regarding solving team members' issues effectively and efficiently (Smith, 2019). Few organizations around the globe provide specific training for the organization's managers that how to face and tackle the issues that may arise in the organization. For this purpose, academic research helps the managers a lot in terms of identifying the risks, issues understand, and analyse them to reach the perfect solutions effectively and efficiently. Comment by Ken Li: I can’t see the content in this reference article relating to “academic researcher” in this parapragh

Based on the role description of academic research in an organization, it plays a significant role in successfully ruling-out complex issues. To implement academic research as a useful tool for this purpose, a manager can efficiently play the role of an academic researcher in the organization. He has certain responsibilities to examine and analyse various academic researches to solve issues in the organization, along with helping the organization in terms of proposing new ideas that can play an important role in enhancing the overall performance of the organization (Perry & Joseph, 2017). Based on these facts, we can say that manager as an 'Academic 'Researcher' could bring some really good and competitive changes in the organization, which would help the business achieve its desired goals and objectives more effectively and conveniently. Comment by Ken Li: This article talks about “using case research in workplace learning” I suggest to rephase the content to match this article thinking (possible?) Or find another reference to reflect the writing?

Differences in ‘Academic Research’ Approach

This approach is entirely different from all other approaches/roles that a manager is being performed while working in the organization for years. Academic research approach helps not only in solving the conflicts between teams, but it would also be beneficial in managing the workplace, employee’s encouragement and most importantly providing new ideas to the organization to develop new products, induction of modern and advanced technology and many other tasks, in result organization would be able to perform well in the market along with making successful management effectively and productively. Case Research is adopted by the manager when he is acting as an academic researcher. The main purpose of consulting case research regarding any organizational issue is to identify various risks that act as a key resource to resolve the issues and improve specific organization areas productively. As we know, the Research and Development department R&D works specifically on innovation strategy, but this academic research plays a significant role in solving the temporary issues and with less time (Manatas, 2012). On the other hand, R&D takes much time on each new product to propose the idea before the board of directors of the board meeting. There are certain differences listed below, which can create a significant difference between the academic research approach and other approaches used in the organization's managerial decisions and the manager's role play. The differences are as follows: Comment by Ken Li: Wrong name, should be “Mantas” I can see any connection between this reference article and the writing in this paragraph

· Professional development of managers

· It helps managers in making strategic decisions

· It helps in identifying certain risks

· It can overlap some other manager's role, i.e., Negotiator, Disturbance handler, etc.

· It provides managers valuable learning experience

· Case research helps managers to know about other organizations, their issues, and techniques to solves those issues

· An effective tool for workplace learning

Those mentioned above are certain differences that differentiate a manager's role as an Academic Researcher and specific approach from other managerial approaches that a manager carries to perform his/her duties very well. Likewise, these differences address the versatility of this academic research approach. It can overlap some other manager's role and the effective gain of knowledge regarding other organizations, face serious business challenges, and what kind of strategies they induced to overcome those issues. All these could be handled by efficiently reading and analysing the case research strategy made by the manager when finds a situation to act as an academic researcher to get the department/organization out of it effectively and efficiently.

Challenges

The manager may face certain challenges while performing as an academic researcher in terms of making improvements in the organizational activities and helping to resolve the issues smartly. The challenges are as follows:

· Managers should ground him to do academic research

· Always get back to the basic research methodology

· Always listen to the information they receive

· It may consume much time

· The manager should be focused while doing academic research

· Implementation of these theoretical solutions may become difficult

· It may need confirmation from boards of directors regarding any research-based decision implementation

Those mentioned above are certain challenges that may arise while adding 'Academic Researcher' as a manager role among all other basic roles that managers are already performing effectively and efficiently. Likewise, these challenges should be analysed and overcome after implementing effective and efficient academic research strategies productively and successfully. For instance, we take an example that implementation of academic research-based decisions guided by the management books needs an immediate approval from the upper management, i.e., the board of directors, so that this management role would become official. A decision made under this would be accepted by all employees, management, and board.

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Role of a manager as an Academic Researcher: Requirements

There are certain requirements needed by the manager to perform the role of an academic researcher. To identify those requirements, we shall discuss some important factors regarding the addition of an academic researcher as a manager; it involves organizational learning, management ethics, ensured total quality management, favourable workplace environment, etc. These are some very important factors that make this role in addition to ten basic roles introduced by Henry Mintzberg; these factors need to be analysed and required to manage this role effectively. The executive's Ethics is fundamentally a successful and proficient hierarchical administration strategy to force moral principles on representatives, investors, proprietors alongside open.

The executive's morals, for example, execution assessment. Execution assessment is a fundamental instrument in which representatives, supervisor's execution is being observed and assess whether they are working acceptable and generally critically under the hierarchical norms or not. In this presentation assessment, consistency in hierarchical moral principles is also estimated to keep the authoritative inside climate spotless, amicable, and profitable. The explanation of checking the director's exhibition is to choose whether he would be elevated to ranking director post or let him remain at the same post (Fekete, 2014). This presentation assessment measure thoroughly includes improving the general exhibition of the association effectively. This could be done by the managers when they act as academic researchers by taking help from case research, research-based management books, and ethics to make the decision efficient. Comment by Ken Li: The reference article talks about the model of performance evaluation. But the writing here does not mention the similar thing….

Secondly, organizational learning is the most important tool by the managers to perform as an academic researcher because when he is fully aware of organizational standards and decision-making processes, he will perform more effectively and productively. Hierarchical learning is essentially characterized as by and large authoritative climate. Every representative attempts to master something that would help them improve their exhibition powerfully and proficiently. Here, we have a term utilized in the board, for example, 'investigation,' which implies the curiosity is high since taking in is being done from new and progressed things. There is another number of encounters that have been examined in this section (Somasundaram, 2014). For example, we take another case of achievement versus disappointment involvement with which we make an honest effort to draw in ourselves in accomplishing work adroitly, so we would have the option to convey something significant; consequently, representatives experience achievement fit as a fiddle of remunerations and addition in motivators and the other way around. Based on extensive organizational learning, a manager would be able to do his research in a more convenient and productive environment to prove what he finds and provide solutions accordingly. Comment by Ken Li: The article talks about employee training and development, is the phase (yellow highlight sentence) refers to this article writing?

The manager as an ‘Academic Researcher’ would ensure the total quality management in his research role and its effective implementation. As we see a definitive motivation behind any business worldwide, it is to catch the market by presenting separated items created under quality guidelines (Ali, 2017). Every single cycle is observed completely until the item is reached to the store rack. All out Quality Management is a significant vital branch of the association on which the general exhibition of the association depends. The highlights incorporate Customer Satisfaction, Innovations, Quality Improvement Projects, Strategic Focus, Customer-Oriented Products, Customer-criticism, and so forth are sure highlights that are considered the drivers of business greatness (Fuller and Nina, 2016). To change the authoritative structure, they will, in general, fit the social change in the organization, which would have given extreme and moment results around then as far as to complete quality and business greatness (Pulli, 2001). Based on these explained factors, we are satisfied in terms of adding an academic researcher as a managerial because it can help in solving various complex issues successfully. Comment by Ken Li: Total Quality Management in this paragraph talks about the quality of the management skills (research skills?) so as the same idea from this article? Comment by Ken Li: Spelling mistake? Comment by Ken Li: Ryan Fuller Nina Shikaloff Pattern of reference name is consistent? I can’t see any connection of this article with the writing in this paragragh Comment by Ken Li: This reference article is full of valuable information Shall we interpret more points from this article and adding into the paragraph?

Keeping in view this competent addition to the manager's role, we have identified some requirements that are important in terms of effective implementation of that role to the management of any organization. The requirements are as follows:

· He must possess vast academic research experience.

· He must contain a bachelor's degree in any business studies, i.e., marketing, HR, etc.

· Extensive organizational learning background

· Quick observer

· He must possess the ability to ensure total quality management by applying his academic research techniques at workplace management

· Competitively analyse and resolve research-based management issues promptly and accurately

Those mentioned above are certain requirements that are needed in terms of productive implementation of academic research approach to solve the management issues along with making the manager responsible for doing an extensive academic study by using research-based articles, case researches, and management books to act as an academic researcher to perform his duties and responsibilities successfully. Comment by Ken Li: This paragraph is the summary of the paper?

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